Re: MIME or inline signature ? [OT]

2015-02-18 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 17 February 2015 at 11:13:18 AM, in mid:20150217061318.3cd64936@scorpio, Jerry wrote: That is the reason I detest INLINE as opposed to PGP/MIME. You detest pgp-inline for the main reason I prefer it. Wouldn't life be boring if

RE: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-17 Thread Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh
Jerry writes: ...Worse, since most users have no concept of trimming a message before replying to it, even more useless garbage is transmitted when replied to, thus killing more innocent electrons and wasting bandwidth not to mention the consumption of screen territory. Does that make you an

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-17 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:16:26 +, MFPA stated: I like that advantage of keeping it all visible in the message body. That is the reason I detest INLINE as opposed to PGP/MIME. The insertion of superfluous garbage in the message body is annoying to say the least. Worse, since most users have no

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, Christopher, Am 16.02.2015 um 13:01 schrieb Christopher Beck: Hi, now I'll use the inline format. If you can now verify my signature, this still could be the same bug (or whatever it is...). Ah sorry, the previous mail still was MIME. Now it's inline. The signature of this

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Stephan Beck
Am 16.02.2015 um 00:01 schrieb Damien Goutte-Gattat: What's wrong with what I am doing? You provide GnuPG with only the *signature*. You need to also give it the *signed data* (the message) so that it can perform the verification. If you want to do that manually (something you don’t

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Stephan Beck
Am 16.02.2015 um 13:53 schrieb Philip Jackson: [...] What's wrong with what I am doing? With the expression you used, (gpg --verify signature.asc), gpg will look for a similarly named data file in the same directory where you saved signature.asc. Is that data file (the signed email)

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Monday 16 February 2015 at 5:38:08 AM, in mid:m0lhjy8lhb@kcals.intra.maillard.im, Xavier Maillard wrote: One more argument in favor of the inline: it questions my fellows; what are these cabalistic caracters and then you can what's the

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Philip Jackson
On 15/02/15 22:42, Stephan Beck wrote: Hi, Christopher, Am 15.02.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Christopher Beck: On Sunday 15 February 2015 16:30:33 Stephan Beck wrote: Am 15.02.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: On 14.02.15 23:05, Stephan Beck wrote: Sometimes my signatures are being

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:56:21 -0800, Doug Barton stated: I get that you have a preference, and personally I don't care how you sign your messages. But as I stated before, it really bothers me when the zealots (on either side) misrepresent the facts in order to bolster their case. I agree

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Christopher Beck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 February 2015 12:32:49 Christopher Beck wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2015 22:42:09 Stephan Beck wrote: Hi, Christopher, Am 15.02.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Christopher Beck: On Sunday 15 February 2015 16:30:33 Stephan Beck wrote:

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Christopher Beck
On Sunday 15 February 2015 22:42:09 Stephan Beck wrote: Hi, Christopher, Am 15.02.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Christopher Beck: On Sunday 15 February 2015 16:30:33 Stephan Beck wrote: Am 15.02.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: On 14.02.15 23:05, Stephan Beck wrote: Sometimes my

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 14.02.15 23:05, Stephan Beck wrote: Well, it's rather a precautionary measure than an actual security measure, , reminding me of not trusting the key owner's ability to handle and verify signatures correctly, if he/she uses a signature no

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi MFPA Am 15.02.2015 um 13:14 schrieb MFPA: On Saturday 14 February 2015 at 10:05:24 PM, in mid:54dfc6a4.8070...@mailbox.org, Stephan Beck wrote: Well, it's rather a precautionary measure than an actual security measure, , reminding me of not trusting the key owner's ability to

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 14 February 2015 at 10:05:24 PM, in mid:54dfc6a4.8070...@mailbox.org, Stephan Beck wrote: Well, it's rather a precautionary measure than an actual security measure, , reminding me of not trusting the key owner's ability to handle

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Damien Goutte-Gattat
On 02/15/2015 04:12 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: Obviously, it indicates a key ID 0xBA4909B78F04DE1B and links to a key that is not the key the message was signed with (which is DE2FFC869AFA5165, according to Enigmail/gpg), even if the fingerprint is given as well. Well, the 0xDE2FFC869AFA5165 key

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 15.02.15 16:30, Stephan Beck wrote: OK, I give you that, strictly speaking, it might not be the same, but at the moment I had no other measure at hand to remind me of being careful with that kind of event. And a bad signature event is not

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Stephan Beck
Am 15.02.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: On 15.02.15 16:30, Stephan Beck wrote: The only place to get trust to the senders key (i.e. to make it valid for you) is to meet the key owner in real life, verify the identity documents, his fingerprint and mail addresses and sign his

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, Hauke, Am 15.02.2015 um 17:04 schrieb Hauke Laging: Am So 15.02.2015, 16:12:01 schrieb Stephan Beck: X-GPG-Key-ID: 0xBA4909B78F04DE1B X-GPG-Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/pks/lookup?search=0xBA4909B78F04DE1Bop=index X-GPG-Fingerprint: 9983 DCA1 1FAC 8DA7 653A F9AA BA49 09B7 8F04 DE1B

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Hauke Laging
Am So 15.02.2015, 16:12:01 schrieb Stephan Beck: X-GPG-Key-ID: 0xBA4909B78F04DE1B X-GPG-Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/pks/lookup?search=0xBA4909B78F04DE1Bop=index X-GPG-Fingerprint: 9983 DCA1 1FAC 8DA7 653A F9AA BA49 09B7 8F04 DE1B Obviously, it indicates a key ID 0xBA4909B78F04DE1B and

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 15.02.15 17:11, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: Error - signature verification failed Public key DE2FFC869AFA5165 needed to verify signature ^^ This is a bug in Enigmail 1.7.2. The sentence should be: Public

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Hauke Laging
Am So 15.02.2015, 20:55:05 schrieb Matthias Mansfeld: One point for inline vs. MIME: You can easily Ctrl-V the complete inline signed or encrypted mail in the clipboard and Ctrl-V it in any GnuPG Interface. Doesn't work with a PGP/MIME mail. Let's hope that changes soon:

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Christopher Beck
On Sunday 15 February 2015 16:30:33 Stephan Beck wrote: Am 15.02.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: On 14.02.15 23:05, Stephan Beck wrote: Well, it's rather a precautionary measure than an actual security measure, , reminding me of not trusting the key owner's ability to handle

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Matthias Mansfeld
Zitat von Christopher Beck bec...@beckus.eu: According to the question in the topic: inline signatures always worked, MIME didn't. I still wonder why, and after my next exams I'll investigate on that... One point for inline vs. MIME: You can easily Ctrl-V the complete inline signed or

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat 2015-02-14 16:36:08 -0500, Doug Barton wrote: FWIW, I hate this debate, and try hard to stay out of it. But it really bothers me when people spread factually incorrect information, especially when they try to use that as the basis of their arguments for/against one method or the

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Damien Goutte-Gattat
What's wrong with what I am doing? You provide GnuPG with only the *signature*. You need to also give it the *signed data* (the message) so that it can perform the verification. If you want to do that manually (something you don’t usually do with PGP/MIME signatures, since it’s quite

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Robert J. Hansen
A bad signature _only shows one thing_: The message was modified along the way from the signing process (at the senders computer) to the verification process (at your computer). It doesn't even show that. The modification can be in the signature, not the message -- meaning it's possible to

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Christopher Beck
On Sunday 15 February 2015 15:20:39 Jerry wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:55:05 +0100, Matthias Mansfeld stated: One point for inline vs. MIME: You can easily Ctrl-V the complete inline signed or encrypted mail in the clipboard and Ctrl-V it in any GnuPG Interface. Doesn't work with a

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, Christopher, Am 15.02.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Christopher Beck: On Sunday 15 February 2015 16:30:33 Stephan Beck wrote: Am 15.02.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: On 14.02.15 23:05, Stephan Beck wrote: Sometimes my signatures are being counted as bad ones. But I figured out it

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:55:05 +0100, Matthias Mansfeld stated: One point for inline vs. MIME: You can easily Ctrl-V the complete inline signed or encrypted mail in the clipboard and Ctrl-V it in any GnuPG Interface. Doesn't work with a PGP/MIME mail. I have never, ever had a reason to do

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sunday 15 February 2015 at 3:12:01 PM, in mid:54e0b741.4000...@mailbox.org, Stephan Beck wrote: Didn't you say before you got the same error message as I did? Yes, I get gpg: BAD signature from Xavier Maillard xav...@maillard.im

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sunday 15 February 2015 at 4:25:56 PM, in mid:54e0c894.8080...@hammernoch.net, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: The only place to get trust to the senders key (i.e. to make it valid for you) is to meet the key owner in real life, verify the

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2/15/15 12:26 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: | On Sat 2015-02-14 16:36:08 -0500, Doug Barton wrote: | FWIW, I hate this debate, and try hard to stay out of it. But it really | bothers me when people spread factually incorrect information, |

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sunday 15 February 2015 at 7:55:05 PM, in mid:20150215205505.horde.1fuphhfyhivqsunkufin...@webmail.df.eu, Matthias Mansfeld wrote: One point for inline vs. MIME: You can easily Ctrl-V the complete inline signed or encrypted mail in the

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Xavier Maillard
MFPA 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net writes: My preference is Inline: I want everything right there in the message body where I can see it. Exactly what is it you feel the over powering urge to see? If the message text is covered by a signature, I want to see the signature. I

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-15 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 16.02.15 00:07, Robert J. Hansen wrote: A bad signature _only shows one thing_: The message was modified along the way from the signing process (at the senders computer) to the verification process (at your computer). It doesn't even show

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-12 23:46, Xavier Maillard wrote: Hello, in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ? Regards -- Sent with my mu4e This is a bit of a

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 7:41:14 PM, in mid:54de535a.2060...@sixdemonbag.org, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Postel's sentiments were more, Reject traffic that does not conform to the spec, even if it's in common use; accept traffic that

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 5:12:18 PM, in mid:8364c525-7042-4575-8d9d-3259a87a8...@asatiifm.net, Ville Määttä wrote: Fortunately it certainly does not. I doubt that many spam emails contain an inline OpenPGP signature, or text that looks

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 1:14:25 PM, in mid:20150213081425.7a418830@scorpio, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:22:23 +, MFPA stated: My preference is Inline: I want everything right there in the message body where I can see it.

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Rejecting traffic that does not conform to the spec, even if it's in common use is counter-intuitive. To you, perhaps, sure -- to me, no. Either way it doesn't matter; the guidance is what it is, and many counterintuitive things turn out to be true. It seems to be denying yourself access to

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:05, joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl said: Hmmm. Some exotic uses with ElGamal keys were removed after a bug was discovered AFAIK. And thinking on some discussions about pgp 2 The reason for Elgamal signing keys was that back when I started with GnuPG it was not clear whether DSA

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 11:28:43 AM, in mid:54dddfeb.4020...@mailbox.org, Stephan Beck wrote: BAD Signature from xx I get that as well. As a security measure I have assigned your key a non-trust attribute. Is that something

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-14 14:33, MFPA wrote: Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 7:41:14 PM, in mid:54de535a.2060...@sixdemonbag.org, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Postel's sentiments were more, Reject traffic that does not conform to the spec, even if it's in common use; accept traffic that conforms

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Doug Barton
FWIW, I hate this debate, and try hard to stay out of it. But it really bothers me when people spread factually incorrect information, especially when they try to use that as the basis of their arguments for/against one method or the other. On 2/14/15 7:49 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-14 13:36, Doug Barton wrote: FWIW, I hate this debate, and try hard to stay out of it. But it really bothers me when people spread factually incorrect information, especially when they try to use that as the basis of their arguments for/against one method or the other. On 2/14/15

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Am 14.02.2015 um 15:44 schrieb MFPA: Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 11:28:43 AM, in mid:54dddfeb.4020...@mailbox.org, Stephan Beck wrote: BAD Signature from xx I get that as well. As a security measure I have assigned your key a non-trust attribute. Is that

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: This part appears to be out of date: Since PGP/MIME can't reliably be sent to the three largest GnuPG mailing lists, itâs hard to claim that PGP/MIME is ready for widespread usage. For now, itâs best to

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 04:18, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: And the MIME attachment being mangled by the mailing list, yes, I agree. It's almost a bizarre endorsement of the attachment fragility idea... Which is a long standing problem of the Python mail library. Mailpile also had its trouble with

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Johan Wevers
On 13-02-2015 1:44, Jerry wrote: Inline totally destroys a sig delimiter It is supposed to sign and/or encrypt the sig too. and adds a lot of useless garbage to the message body. You need a mailclient to interpret that. Mail clients interprete Mime attachments too (or not). -- ir. J.C.A.

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Xavier, Am 12.02.2015 um 23:46 schrieb Xavier Maillard: Hello, sorry, just to inform you that I cannot verify your signature: While trying to verify it, Enigmail (German localization) reports the following: Enigmail-Sicherheitsinfo: Fehler - Überprüfung der Unterschrift fehlgeschlagen

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:22:23 +, MFPA stated: My preference is Inline: I want everything right there in the message body where I can see it. Exactly what is it you feel the over powering urge to see? -- Jerry pgpDjGfOstW1Q.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Brian Minton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 My personal preference is inline, but I do have a request: if you have a 4096 bit RSA key, please don't sign inline. The signature block is ridiculously long. That's why I use DSA and especially ed25519 for signing. My main email access is on my

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 2015-02-13 15:07, Brian Minton wrote: if you have a 4096 bit RSA key, please dont sign inline. The signature block is ridiculously long. You'll find it is actually even an 8192 bit RSA key. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Ville Määttä
On 13 Feb 2015, at 08:25, Christopher W. Richardson c...@cwrichardson.com wrote: FWIW, Mac Mail marked this message as spam. Not sure if it universally does that for all inline sigs, but ... FYI. Chris Fortunately it certainly does not. -- Ville signature.asc Description: Message

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread vedaal
On 2/12/2015 at 5:42 PM, Xavier Maillard xav...@maillard.im wrote: Hello, in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? = If, by 'perfect', you mean that it's as close to possible to not be

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Johan Wevers
On 13-02-2015 16:44, Mark H. Wood wrote: Some people will complain if you use one format, and others will complain if you use the other, so unless there's someone you especially want to favor (or annoy) you may as well send what you would most like to receive. (Isn't there some sort of

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle It's worth noting that Postel (the guy who first formulated it) was very dissatisfied with how people tended to interpret Postel's Law. Per him, he felt most people who quoted

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 2/13/15 4:01 AM, MFPA wrote: In an OpenPGP-aware mail client, that is the decision of the developer. For example, is there any huge reason why it would be a bad idea to treat dashspacedashdashnewline the same as they treat dashdashspacenewline? And Enigmail, for example, can do exactly

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Johan Wevers
On 13-02-2015 20:41, Robert J. Hansen wrote: It's worth noting that Postel (the guy who first formulated it) was very dissatisfied with how people tended to interpret Postel's Law. I think Godwin is even more dissatisfied. :-) This has long been one of my complaints about the way GnuPG gets

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Xavier Maillard
Peter Lebbing pe...@digitalbrains.com writes: On 2015-02-13 15:07, Brian Minton wrote: if you have a 4096 bit RSA key, please dont sign inline. The signature block is ridiculously long. You'll find it is actually even an 8192 bit RSA key. Yes sorry. I should add a smaller key for that

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 10:19:06 AM, in mid:54ddcf9a.5070...@vulcan.xs4all.nl, Johan Wevers wrote: On 13-02-2015 1:44, Jerry wrote: Inline totally destroys a sig delimiter In an OpenPGP-aware mail client, that is the decision of

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread Xavier Maillard
des-apare.cido...@autistici.org writes: Maybe I cannot offer a big rule for THE preferred way. Jerry is right, but maybe we HAVE to deal with recipients who have no influence to take a mail client which is capable to handle PGP/MIME sigbatures properly. Then it is also MY problem. I agree.

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-13 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thursday 12 February 2015 at 10:46:33 PM, in mid:m0vbj6n3xy@kcals.intra.maillard.im, Xavier Maillard wrote: in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or

MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Xavier Maillard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ? Regards - -- Sent with my mu4e -BEGIN PGP

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2015-02-12 18:14:14 -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ?

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 23:46:33 +0100, Xavier Maillard stated: Hello, in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ? Inline totally destroys a sig

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Robert J. Hansen
in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ? https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#use_pgpmime smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Xavier Maillard
Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org writes: in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ? https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#use_pgpmime THank

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Xavier Maillard
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 23:46:33 +0100, Xavier Maillard stated: Hello, in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ?

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I don't know if this is true for PGP-Basics, but it is certainly not true for enigmail or gnupg-users. Please update the FAQ! It's still true for PGP-Basics; Enigmail's been bit by it within the last year, if memory serves, but it's been generally accepted; GnuPG's been AFAIK stable for it.

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Matthias Mansfeld
Zitat von Xavier Maillard xav...@maillard.im: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header ? Is there a big thumb rule to respect ?

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher W. Richardson
FWIW, Mac Mail marked this message as spam. Not sure if it universally does that for all inline sigs, but ... FYI. Chris On 12 Feb 2015, at 23:46, Xavier Maillard xav...@maillard.im wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, in my quest of the perfect setup, I

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-12 Thread des-apare . cido_77
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Maybe I cannot offer a big rule for THE preferred way. Jerry is right, but maybe we HAVE to deal with recipients who have no influence to take a mail client which is capable to handle PGP/MIME sigbatures properly. Then it is also MY problem. I